In the darkest days, when ABC's Bob Woodruff was just beginning to recover from the Iraq roadside bombing that tore off part of his skull, drove shrapnel into his head and almost killed him, his wife says they told each other jokes to keep from falling apart.

XM Satellite Radio listeners have bestowed upon Kevin Federline what may be his first award. It's the "Keep Your Day Job" prize for least favorite celebrity turned music artist. Voters in the second annual XM Nation Awards also chose James Blunt's You're Beautiful as the song most beaten to death, and the Flaming Lips as most overlooked by FM radio.

Justin Long has seven films out this year and two more in 2007. He's also the "I'm a Mac" guy in the popular Apple commercials opposite the nerdy PC guy, John Hodgman. Most important and surprising to Long is his first starring role. In Accepted, which opens Friday, he plays a slacker who starts his own fictional college.

A Charlie Brown Christmas, directed by animator Bill Melendez, airs 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, on ABC. It's paired with Charlie Brown Christmas Tales, based on Schulz's work and featuring each of the Peanuts characters, including Snoopy, in individual vignettes. Here's where to find other holiday classics.

The Weather Channel forecast: a high-pressure system of comedy. The cable channel will feature Lewis Black known for his rants on Comedy Central's The Daily Show in a handful of segments starting Wednesday night.

Comedy Central has struck out in its attempts at a worthy companion to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , its nightly newscast parody. So it's matching host Stewart with one of his own correspondents in a Daily spinoff: Stephen Colbert's Colbert Report arrives Monday (11:30 p.m. ET/PT) and will follow Stewart Mondays through Thursdays.